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STEINWAY
THE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS
Beneath his hands 'the most renowned Rachmaninoff. Friedman and Levitzki
pianos of the world' have voiced their will have no other. Successively each
greatest glory. His genius has tested every generation of the Steinway family has pre-
great piano-maker's work. Yet, for Alfred served the purpose that its product shall
Cortot, there is but 'one perfect instrument, be as truly the piano of the home as it is
the Steinway.' You who are about to the chosen instrument of the concert stage.
select a piano, do you not find conviction The qualities that have endeared it to the
in the experience of this master? What masters are embodied in every Steinway
need that you experiment? What guide that is made. For your home there is a
more sure than this: that since Henry Steinway, either grand or upright, which
Steinway made his first piano the greatest in tone and touch and action matches that
artists have preferred above all others the which Cortot plays. Once you have set
instrument that bears his name ? Franz fingers to such an instrument, once you
Liszt! Wagner! Rubinstein ! The Stein- have known the beauty of its response, for
way was their piano. It is played and you, thereafter, there can be 'but one per-
loved by Paderewski, by Hofmann, by fect piano, the Steinway.'
There is a Steinway dealer in your community or near you through whom you may
•urchasc a new Steinway piano with a cash deposit of 10%, and the balance will
pu
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Prices: Uprights, $875 and up; Grands, $1425 and up; plus freight
STEINWAY & SONS, STEINWAY HALL
107-109 East Fourteenth Street
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NEW YORK
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REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE
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